An article entitled “Efficiency in managing peer-review of scientific manuscripts – editors’ perspective” by Olgica Nedić, Ivana Drvenica, Marcel Ausloos & Aleksandar B Dekanski has been published in the Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society 83(12), 2018. The article is accessible here. Abstract. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a model for measuring the efficiency in managing peer-review of scientific manuscripts by editors. The approach employed is based…
An article entitled “Correcting duplicate publications: follow up study of MEDLINE tagged duplications” by Mario Malički, Ana Utrobičić & Ana Marušić hs been published in Biochemia Medicam 2019, 29(1), 010201 The article is fully accessible here. Abstract. Introduction. As MEDLINE indexers tag similar articles as duplicates even when journals have not addressed the duplication(s), we sought to determine the reasons behind the tagged duplications, and if the journals had undertaken…
An article entitled “Peer Review of Reviewers: The Author’s Perspective” by Ivana Drvenica, Giangiacomo Bravo, Lucija Vejmelka, Aleksandar Dekanski and Olgica Nedić has beenpublished in Publications 2019, 7(1), 1. A preliminary version of the article was presented at the PEERE International Conference on Peer Review, in Rome, March 2018. The article is fully accessible here. Abstract. The aim of this study was to investigate the opinion of authors on the…
An article entitled “The F3-index. Valuing reviewers for scholarly journals” by Federico Bianchi, Francisco Grimaldo & Flaminio Squazzoni has been published in the Journal of Informetrics, Volume 13, Issue 1, February 2019, Pages 78-86. A preliminary version of this article was presented at the PEERE International Conference on Peer Review, in Rome, March 2018. The article is fully accessible here. Abstract. This paper presents an index that measures reviewer contribution…
“Disparities in ratings of internal and external applicants: A case for model-based inter-rater reliability”, a paper by Patrícia Martinková, Dan Goldhaber & Elena Erosheva originally presented at the PEERE International Conference on Peer Review 2018, has been published in PLoS ONE on 5 October 2018. Abstract. Ratings are present in many areas of assessment including peer review of research proposals and journal articles, teacher observations, university admissions and selection of…
Monica Aniela Zaharie (Babeş-Bolyai Universit) and Marco Seeber (Ghent University) have published a new article entitled “Are non-monetary rewards effective in attracting peer reviewers? A natural experiment” in Scientometrics. This article is the result of their collaboration in PEERE. Abstract. Editors of scientific journals meet increasing challenges to find peer reviewers. Rewarding reviewers has been proposed as a solution to incentives peer review, and journals have already started to offer…
“Studying grant decision-making: a linguistic analysis of review reports”, the paper which was granted the best paper award at the PEERE International Conference 2018 by Peter van den Besselaar, Ulf Sandström & Hélène Schiffbaenker has been published in Scientometrics. See here. Abstract. Peer and panel review are the dominant forms of grant decision-making, despite its serious weaknesses as shown by many studies. This paper contributes to the understanding of the…
“Reputation or peer review? The role of outliers” by Francisco Grimaldo, Mario Paolucci & Jordi Sabater-Mir has been published in Scientometrics. A preliminary version of the article was presented at a PEERE workshop. Here is the article. Abstract.We present an agent-based model of paper publication and consumption that allows to study the effect of two different evaluation mechanisms, peer review and reputation, on the quality of the manuscripts accessed by…
“The peer review game: an agent-based model of scientists facing resource constraints and institutional pressures” by Federico Bianchi, Francisco Grimaldo, Giangiacomo Bravo and Flaminio Squazzoni has been published in Scientometrics. Previous versions of the paper were presented in some PEERE meetings. Here is the paper. Abstract. This paper looks at peer review as a cooperation dilemma through a game-theory framework. We built an agent-based model to estimate how much the…
“Fragments of peer review: A quantitative analysis of the literature (1969-2015)” by Francisco Grimaldo, Ana Marusic and Flaminio Squazzoni has been published in PLoS ONE. A preliminary version of the article was presented in a PEERE workshop last year. Here is the abstract. This paper examines research on peer review between 1969 and 2015 by looking at records indexed from the Scopus database. Although it is often argued that peer…